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In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear a compromising football-related position after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

• I'm sure this has spread like wildfire today and you've all seen it already, but just in case: Sarah Silverman is F*cking Matt Damon. (Pure. F*cking. Genius.)

• Listen to the first song from the new B-52s album, a little ditty called "Funplex". (Nothing says "fun" like Fred Schneider yelling "Candelabras and a Wonder Bra!" and "I'm at the mall on a diet pill"!)

• We'll have a review of the upcoming HBO movie Bernard and Doris and an interview with its fabulous star, Susan Sarandon, next week ... but in the meantime, Michael Musto's account of the bizarre events of the movie's premiere party should tide you over (Rush Limbaugh?!).

Ralph Fiennes plays gay butler to Susan Sarandon's Doris Duke

• Beginning this evening, sister site 365 Gay and Logo television will begin airing a special interview with Hillary Clinton taped exclusively for CBS News on Logo (online beginning at 8PM EST, broadcast beginning at 10:25PM EST and running through the weekend). Clinton's campaign reached out to Logo to arrange the interview and connect with the LGBT audience. (And in case you're keeping score, John McCain's ... didn't.)

• Broadway Backwards update: Anthony Rapp (Rent, Adventures in Babysitting) will duet with Cheyenne Jackson at the fundraiser (as previously reported, Hollywood's gay it-couple Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka will be performing together as well). Be sure to check back next week for our coverage of the star-studded, gender-bending madness.

• Be sure to read Michael's hot-off-the-electronic-presses Best.Gay.Week.Ever. column, and have a great Superbowl weekend!

Comedy Central just posted an interesting interview with Brian Posehn and Steve Agee about their roles as the most unconventional gay television couple since Bert and Ernie (oh, come on...). If you've read interviews with them before there's nothing earth-shattering, but it's still a pretty fun listen.

I like how they note that their TV characters are exactly the same as their real selves except for the gay part; it's nice to see that the show hasn't treated their sexuality as something that would come with a list of requirements. Agee even jokes that the fact that their characters are gay is such a non-issue that the only reason he can think of that the writers would have made them gay would have been as a prank on him and Posehn. I would think that the characters are too integral to the show to have been a mere prank, but even if that is how they got gay, the guys and their many fans are having the last laugh.

The most interesting part of the discussion is Agee's explanation of his various jobs in reality television, including as a transcriber for The Osbornes. And you thought your job sucked.

Check out the video after the jump!

• The very straight Steve Agee refers to his gay Sarah Silverman Program namesake alter-ego as "one half of the greatest gay TV couple since Ernie and Bert."
  
• Hollyoaks star James Sutton will serve as a judge at this year's Mr. Gay UK contest. Tough gig, I'm sure.
• Bravo's gay director of programming/blogstar/gadabout Andy Cohen ran a "how I spent my power-gay summer vacation" diary entry, but I can sum it up for you: by not hanging out with me. Frowny-face.

• James Marsters (Buffy's beloved Spike) spilled a few beans about his upcoming Torchwood gig at Atlanta's Dragon Con.
• In case you missed it, here's Hillary Clinton on Ellen. Go Ellen for not giving her the softball treatment and actually asking gay marriage questions -- the lady continues to impress. (Um, Ellen, that is.)
• The Rocket Man (aka Elton John, FYI) lands in ... Casper, Wyoming on September 30th for the third leg of his U.S. tour. Yay, Casper!
• Idaho Senator Larry Craig receives unqualified support from adopted children. Reportedly is now re-considering his resignation.

Queen of Comedy Sleaze, Lisa Lampanelli, is featured in the July issue of Instinct Magazine with a tawdry article written by Lisa herself, explaining why gay men love her. Lampanelli is known for her outrageously racist, homophobic, sexist and everything-else-offensive-on-the-planet comedy — all while she is dressed in pearls and a June Cleaver dress. As Lampanelli herself might say, "what a f**kin' lady."

In the embarrassingly entertaining story, Lampanelli goes on a trashy jabber fest — spilling out "faggot" and other anti-gay epithets including “ass pirate” and “cornholin’’ — that’s a new one to me! Lampanelli somehow manages to lower the bar even lower than Kathy Griffin and Sarah Silverman combined, and in the process seems to be garnering a gay male following.

Kathy Griffin has said several times that she loves gay male audiences because we are extremely nonjudgmental and nearly impossible to shock. However, after reading the smutty article by Lampanelli I had to question, "Why do I find this woman hilarious? Why do I have her YouTube clips saved under my favorites? Should gay men question why we are attracted to straight women who talk so much about our community, but are not of the community?”

And then I thought, "If it's truly funny, should it even matter?"